Sort of looks like ‘Murphy’s Law’ did Nicole in.
NICOLE ILEEN MURPHY: METH STASHED IN VADGE FAILS TO FOOL PERSISTENT COP
By John Nova Lomax
Houston Press Hair Balls
July 16, 2010
A wee-hours traffic stop led to a slew of charges against a Montgomery County [north of Houston] woman yesterday.
Around 1 a.m.. Montgomery County Deputy J. Bergland was patrolling Newton Drive in New Caney when he spotted a car with an expired inspection sticker and partially obscured license plate. He pulled the car over and soon turned his attention to the passenger, 28-year-old Nicole Ileen Murphy of New Caney.
Bergland knew Murphy, who was not wearing a seat belt, as a repeat drug offender, and it was his view that right at that moment, she appeared to be tweaked out of her fucking gourd.
And so he asked for permission to search the car, which was granted.
And he found nothing, but the search was just getting underway. Bergland evidently knew Murphy well, and so he just knew there had to be some crank around there somewhere.
The deputy ran Murphy in to the jailhouse for the seatbelt violation, and while being interviewed there, Murphy caved.
Yes, she did have some meth on her. Or rather in her, as in inside her vaginal cavity, from which it was thereupon voluntarily removed and surrendered to police. Presumably in a bag or other such form of conveyance...
Talk about ridin' dirty...
So now Murphy is in a real heap of shit. She is charged not just with first degree felony manufacture/delivery of a controlled substance, but also an added charge of bringing those drugs into a jail. Plus that pesky seatbelt violation that led to her undoing, which brings us to the moral of this story:
If you're gonna ride around east Montgomery County with crystal meth in your snatch, make sure you buckle up first.
Sunday, July 18, 2010
CASH COW DUMPED
Immigration is not the only issue that Arizona got right.
SPEED CAMERAS BANNED BY ARIZONA ‘UNCOMFORTABLE’ WITH THE ‘INTRUSIVE GOVERNMENT CASH COWS’
By Daniel Bates
Mail Online
July 17, 2010
The first American state to deploy speed cameras has banned them after a campaign of opposition from motorists.
Arizona today became the first to pull the plug amid concerns the cameras intruded on privacy and were mainly designed to raise money.
In echoes of the row in Britain, motorists had waged a sustained campaign against their use by martyring themselves in court and vandalising cameras.
In addition, less than a third of the 1.2million tickets issued were paid, and Arizona collected £45million in fines, far below the projected £80million annual revenue.
Motorists refused to pay the £120 fines to test whether or not they would actually be jailed, causing legal clerks to be overwhelmed by the paperwork.
It was unclear if the cameras had even led to a sustained reduction in accidents - the Arizona Department of Public Safety had reported a 19 per cent drop in fatal collisions in the first nine months the cameras were in use, but after that no data was released.
SPEED CAMERAS BANNED BY ARIZONA ‘UNCOMFORTABLE’ WITH THE ‘INTRUSIVE GOVERNMENT CASH COWS’
By Daniel Bates
Mail Online
July 17, 2010
The first American state to deploy speed cameras has banned them after a campaign of opposition from motorists.
Arizona today became the first to pull the plug amid concerns the cameras intruded on privacy and were mainly designed to raise money.
In echoes of the row in Britain, motorists had waged a sustained campaign against their use by martyring themselves in court and vandalising cameras.
In addition, less than a third of the 1.2million tickets issued were paid, and Arizona collected £45million in fines, far below the projected £80million annual revenue.
Motorists refused to pay the £120 fines to test whether or not they would actually be jailed, causing legal clerks to be overwhelmed by the paperwork.
It was unclear if the cameras had even led to a sustained reduction in accidents - the Arizona Department of Public Safety had reported a 19 per cent drop in fatal collisions in the first nine months the cameras were in use, but after that no data was released.
Saturday, July 17, 2010
TO THE SWISS, THE FRENCH AND THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY, FORCIBLE RAPE OF A CHILD IS OK (2)
The L.A. Times mirrors my previous thoughts on this gross miscarriage of justice. When Polanski’s day finally comes, may this scumbag rot in Hell!
THE SWISS MISS ON ROMAN POLANSKI
Los Angeles Times
July 13, 2010
Roman Polanski committed a serious crime in 1977, pleading guilty to sex with a 13-year-old girl as part of an agreement that spared him from a charge of drugging and raping his victim. In refusing to extradite Polanski to the United States, the government of Switzerland has substituted its judgment for that of the U.S. legal system. It's a usurpation that trivializes Polanski's wrongdoing in the cause of twisted notions of "good faith" and the requirements of "international public order."
Switzerland's primary rationalization was that the judge in Polanski's case may have reneged on a promise that the director would serve only 42 days in a prison psychiatric unit. "It is not possible to exclude with the necessary certainty," the Swiss justice department said, "that Roman Polanski has already served the sentence he was condemned to." The department noted that it couldn't be sure because it had been denied sealed testimony by a former prosecutor that might have corroborated that assertion.
But that's an issue that should have been dealt with by an inquiry in an American court once Polanski was back in the United States. Switzerland's proper role was not to consider the underlying facts of a sentence but to return a fugitive from justice.
As if they realized their claim was unconvincing, the Swiss also said that under international law, extradition requests must be acted on in "good faith." Doing so, the department said, required taking into account the fact that the United States waited years to file a formal request for Polanski to be taken into custody. That delay supposedly justified Polanski's expectation that he wouldn't be arrested if he attended a film festival in Zurich.
It's hard to resist concluding that Polanski's celebrity played a role in his rescue from a legal accounting in the United States. Would a fugitive who wasn't a gifted director provoke musings about the dictates of "international public order"? Or the conclusion that, just because he hadn't been apprehended so far, he had a legitimate expectation that he would remain free forever? It seems the Swiss may share the moral myopia that has made Polanski an object of sympathy throughout Europe. (France's culture minister said the pursuit of Polanski was evidence of "a scary America.")
As we have observed before, Polanski has every right to argue to a U.S. court that he was misled by the judge in his case about his punishment. But the legal and moral prerequisite for such a contention is that he return to the United States.
Difficult as it will be, the district attorney and the U.S. Justice Department should continue to monitor Polanski's movements in the hope that some other country might honor the obligations that Switzerland irresponsibly ignored.
THE SWISS MISS ON ROMAN POLANSKI
Los Angeles Times
July 13, 2010
Roman Polanski committed a serious crime in 1977, pleading guilty to sex with a 13-year-old girl as part of an agreement that spared him from a charge of drugging and raping his victim. In refusing to extradite Polanski to the United States, the government of Switzerland has substituted its judgment for that of the U.S. legal system. It's a usurpation that trivializes Polanski's wrongdoing in the cause of twisted notions of "good faith" and the requirements of "international public order."
Switzerland's primary rationalization was that the judge in Polanski's case may have reneged on a promise that the director would serve only 42 days in a prison psychiatric unit. "It is not possible to exclude with the necessary certainty," the Swiss justice department said, "that Roman Polanski has already served the sentence he was condemned to." The department noted that it couldn't be sure because it had been denied sealed testimony by a former prosecutor that might have corroborated that assertion.
But that's an issue that should have been dealt with by an inquiry in an American court once Polanski was back in the United States. Switzerland's proper role was not to consider the underlying facts of a sentence but to return a fugitive from justice.
As if they realized their claim was unconvincing, the Swiss also said that under international law, extradition requests must be acted on in "good faith." Doing so, the department said, required taking into account the fact that the United States waited years to file a formal request for Polanski to be taken into custody. That delay supposedly justified Polanski's expectation that he wouldn't be arrested if he attended a film festival in Zurich.
It's hard to resist concluding that Polanski's celebrity played a role in his rescue from a legal accounting in the United States. Would a fugitive who wasn't a gifted director provoke musings about the dictates of "international public order"? Or the conclusion that, just because he hadn't been apprehended so far, he had a legitimate expectation that he would remain free forever? It seems the Swiss may share the moral myopia that has made Polanski an object of sympathy throughout Europe. (France's culture minister said the pursuit of Polanski was evidence of "a scary America.")
As we have observed before, Polanski has every right to argue to a U.S. court that he was misled by the judge in his case about his punishment. But the legal and moral prerequisite for such a contention is that he return to the United States.
Difficult as it will be, the district attorney and the U.S. Justice Department should continue to monitor Polanski's movements in the hope that some other country might honor the obligations that Switzerland irresponsibly ignored.
NON-HISPANIC WHITES COMMIT ONLY 5% OF NEW YORK'S VIOLENT CRIMES, 1.4% OF ALL SHOOTINGS AND LESS THAN 5% OF ALL ROBBERIES (2)
Civil rights advocates have struck again, this time with a blow against an effective crime-fighting tool.
NY LAW LIMITS NYPD STOP-FRISK DATABASE
Gov. David Paterson signed legislation, calling the practice "not a policy for a democracy"
By Marc Beja
Associated Press
July 16, 2010
NEW YORK — Gov. David Paterson signed legislation Friday that eliminates a database of thousands of people stopped and frisked by New York City police without facing charges, calling the practice "not a policy for a democracy."
Paterson signed the law over vehement objections of New York City's mayor and police commissioner, who said the city was losing a key crime-fighting tool.
But the governor said the policy that targets criminals won't be affected by eliminating a database of people who were stopped, then released.
"This law does not in any way tamper with our stop-and-frisk policies," Paterson said. "What it does is it disallows the use of personal data of innocent people who have not done anything wrong. ... That is not a policy for a democracy."
Critics have said information from such stops, mainly of blacks and Latinos who are innocent, can lead to future police suspicion and surveillance. Police say the database helped to solve crimes, including anti-gay and anti-Hispanic bias attacks.
"Albany has robbed us of a great crime-fighting tool, one that saved lives," Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said in a statement. "Without it, there will be, inevitably, killers and other criminals who won't be captured as quickly, or perhaps ever."
Donna Liberman, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, praised Paterson for signing the legislation.
"Innocent people stopped by the police for doing nothing more than going to school, work or the subway should not become permanent criminal suspects," said Liberman. "By signing this bill, the Paterson administration has put itself on the right side of history and leaves an important legacy in support of civil rights, civil liberties and common sense."
NY LAW LIMITS NYPD STOP-FRISK DATABASE
Gov. David Paterson signed legislation, calling the practice "not a policy for a democracy"
By Marc Beja
Associated Press
July 16, 2010
NEW YORK — Gov. David Paterson signed legislation Friday that eliminates a database of thousands of people stopped and frisked by New York City police without facing charges, calling the practice "not a policy for a democracy."
Paterson signed the law over vehement objections of New York City's mayor and police commissioner, who said the city was losing a key crime-fighting tool.
But the governor said the policy that targets criminals won't be affected by eliminating a database of people who were stopped, then released.
"This law does not in any way tamper with our stop-and-frisk policies," Paterson said. "What it does is it disallows the use of personal data of innocent people who have not done anything wrong. ... That is not a policy for a democracy."
Critics have said information from such stops, mainly of blacks and Latinos who are innocent, can lead to future police suspicion and surveillance. Police say the database helped to solve crimes, including anti-gay and anti-Hispanic bias attacks.
"Albany has robbed us of a great crime-fighting tool, one that saved lives," Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said in a statement. "Without it, there will be, inevitably, killers and other criminals who won't be captured as quickly, or perhaps ever."
Donna Liberman, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, praised Paterson for signing the legislation.
"Innocent people stopped by the police for doing nothing more than going to school, work or the subway should not become permanent criminal suspects," said Liberman. "By signing this bill, the Paterson administration has put itself on the right side of history and leaves an important legacy in support of civil rights, civil liberties and common sense."
PRISON INMATE'S CAMCORDER GOES UNDETECTED
The other night I watched 'An Omar Broadway Film' on HBO. In 2004, Broadway was an inmate in Northern State Prison when someone smuggled him a camcorder. NSP is a maximum security prison and Broadway was in a special lock-down unit composed of dangerous and violent Bloods and Crips gang members.
For about four months, Broadway filmed the conflicts between correctional officers and inmates in that joint. Maybe you saw this documentary. If not, I'm sure HBO will repeat it several times.
Here is the most amazing part of this film. Not only was Broadway’s camcorder not detected all that time, but correctional officials also were clueless about the cellphones he and his cellmate had.
For about four months, Broadway filmed the conflicts between correctional officers and inmates in that joint. Maybe you saw this documentary. If not, I'm sure HBO will repeat it several times.
Here is the most amazing part of this film. Not only was Broadway’s camcorder not detected all that time, but correctional officials also were clueless about the cellphones he and his cellmate had.
MOSQUE AT GROUND ZERO?
The proposed Mosque adjacent to Ground Zero is an affront to the 3,000 victims of the World Trade Center attacks, to their families and to all Americans. Much of the funding for this project will have to come from the Saudis who have been funding mosques all over the U.S. with Imams who have been preaching hatred against America.
Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller, the founders of STOP ISLAMIZATION OF AMERICA, sponsored the June 6 rally in New York protesting the building of a mosque near Ground Zero. It was estimated that up to 10,000 protesters attended the rally. The crowd overflowed the police barrier enclosures that ran the full length of two city blocks. Yet not one major network sent a satellite truck or camera crew to this event. Were it not for the internet, this newsworthy event would have remained unknown to the public and history.
Geller is a citizen journalist and blogger who runs the human rights web site Atlas Shrugs. Spencer is the author of several books on Islam and head of the influential web site Jihad watch. Here are Geller’s remarks:
"Ground Zero is a war memorial, Ground Zero is a burial ground. We are asking for sensitivity…It is unconscionable to build a shrine to the very ideology that inspired the jihadist attacks at Ground Zero, right there. We are asking the imam Rauf and Daisy Khan to be sensitive. For mutual respect and mutual understanding that is demanded of us every day.
There’s a hair-trigger sensitivity in the Muslim world, you can’t run the cartoons, you can’t say Mohammed, this is offensive. This is an offensive mosque. To build a shrine, an Islamic flag of conquest on the sacred ground the cherished site, of a conquered land. This is historic, this is Islamic history. It’s what they do. The St. Sofia in Turkey, the al-Quds, at the holiest Jewish site in Israel. Not here. This is where we take a stand. We must take a stand. We must say no."
I do not believe that the landmarks commission controlled by Mayor Bloomberg, is going to stop this mosque. It’s not going to happen. Here’s Omar Muhamedi, on his human rights council, a CAIR lawyer, who sued the airlines and the Jane and John Does that saw something and said something on those airplanes, if you remember. That’s who’s on his human rights commission. It ain’t gonna happen with Bloomberg. We have to make it happen. You have to get involved."
Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller, the founders of STOP ISLAMIZATION OF AMERICA, sponsored the June 6 rally in New York protesting the building of a mosque near Ground Zero. It was estimated that up to 10,000 protesters attended the rally. The crowd overflowed the police barrier enclosures that ran the full length of two city blocks. Yet not one major network sent a satellite truck or camera crew to this event. Were it not for the internet, this newsworthy event would have remained unknown to the public and history.
Geller is a citizen journalist and blogger who runs the human rights web site Atlas Shrugs. Spencer is the author of several books on Islam and head of the influential web site Jihad watch. Here are Geller’s remarks:
"Ground Zero is a war memorial, Ground Zero is a burial ground. We are asking for sensitivity…It is unconscionable to build a shrine to the very ideology that inspired the jihadist attacks at Ground Zero, right there. We are asking the imam Rauf and Daisy Khan to be sensitive. For mutual respect and mutual understanding that is demanded of us every day.
There’s a hair-trigger sensitivity in the Muslim world, you can’t run the cartoons, you can’t say Mohammed, this is offensive. This is an offensive mosque. To build a shrine, an Islamic flag of conquest on the sacred ground the cherished site, of a conquered land. This is historic, this is Islamic history. It’s what they do. The St. Sofia in Turkey, the al-Quds, at the holiest Jewish site in Israel. Not here. This is where we take a stand. We must take a stand. We must say no."
I do not believe that the landmarks commission controlled by Mayor Bloomberg, is going to stop this mosque. It’s not going to happen. Here’s Omar Muhamedi, on his human rights council, a CAIR lawyer, who sued the airlines and the Jane and John Does that saw something and said something on those airplanes, if you remember. That’s who’s on his human rights commission. It ain’t gonna happen with Bloomberg. We have to make it happen. You have to get involved."
Friday, July 16, 2010
WHEN THE BEST LAID PLANS GO TO HELL
How to progress from a misdemeanor to a felony during a one-minute phone call. This 21-year-old appears to be far from the brightest star on the horizon.
BRADLEY PRIOR: DON’T IMPERSONATE A COP ON THE JAILHOUSE PHONE
By John Nova Lomax
Houston Press Hairballs
July 15, 2010
Last Sunday, 21-year-old Bradley Pryor apparently forgot his Target card when he went shopping for memory cards and clothes in his native League City. Also his checkbook and cash, because he is alleged to have walked out without paying for anything.
Pryor was arrested, charged with misdemeanor theft and taken to League City jail. Meanwhile, a company called South Belt Wrecker had towed Pryor's car to a lot a few miles away.
Prior's bond was set at $1,000, so he could have gotten sprung for under $200. But instead of working on his bail, apparently, Prior decided on a creative ploy to finance his bid for freedom -- he would find a way to erase the towing costs he had accrued.
And so he unleashed a most cunning plan....
He would tell the wrecker company he was a cop, and that they'd better give him his car back, pronto. Evidently he forgot one small detail: the cops listen to your phone calls in jail.
The wrecker driver told Pryor he couldn't help him as the car had already been logged in to the lot. Meanwhile, the police intercepted the call and forwarded it to the Galveston County DA's office and asked for a felony charge of impersonating a police officer, which was approved, we are sure, amid many a hearty chortle, guffaw and snigger at Pryor's expense.
BRADLEY PRIOR: DON’T IMPERSONATE A COP ON THE JAILHOUSE PHONE
By John Nova Lomax
Houston Press Hairballs
July 15, 2010
Last Sunday, 21-year-old Bradley Pryor apparently forgot his Target card when he went shopping for memory cards and clothes in his native League City. Also his checkbook and cash, because he is alleged to have walked out without paying for anything.
Pryor was arrested, charged with misdemeanor theft and taken to League City jail. Meanwhile, a company called South Belt Wrecker had towed Pryor's car to a lot a few miles away.
Prior's bond was set at $1,000, so he could have gotten sprung for under $200. But instead of working on his bail, apparently, Prior decided on a creative ploy to finance his bid for freedom -- he would find a way to erase the towing costs he had accrued.
And so he unleashed a most cunning plan....
He would tell the wrecker company he was a cop, and that they'd better give him his car back, pronto. Evidently he forgot one small detail: the cops listen to your phone calls in jail.
The wrecker driver told Pryor he couldn't help him as the car had already been logged in to the lot. Meanwhile, the police intercepted the call and forwarded it to the Galveston County DA's office and asked for a felony charge of impersonating a police officer, which was approved, we are sure, amid many a hearty chortle, guffaw and snigger at Pryor's expense.
AFGHANISTAN
A Recon Marine writing under the pseudonym "Saucy Jack" has described his experiences in Afghanistan battling the Taliban, Chiggers, Sand Fleas and Scorpions. I’ve chosen to excerpt his description of the Afghans:
This country blows, man. It's not even a country. There are no roads, there's no infrastructure, there's no government. This is an inhospitable, rock pit shit hole ruled by eleventh century warring tribes. There are no jobs here like we know jobs.
Afghanistan offers two ways for a man to support his family: join the opium trade or join the army. That's it. Those are your options. Oh, I forgot, you can also live in a refugee camp and eat plum-sweetened, crushed beetle paste and squirt mud like a goose with stomach flu, if that's your idea of a party. But the smell alone of those 'tent cities of the walking dead' is enough to hurl you into the poppy fields to cheerfully scrape bulbs for eighteen hours a day.
I've been living with these Tajiks and Uzbeks, and Turkmen and even a couple of Pushtuns, for over a month-and-a-half now, and this much I can say for sure: These guys, all of 'em, are Huns... actual, living Huns.. They LIVE to fight. It's what they do. It's ALL they do. They have no respect for anything, not for their families, nor for each other, nor for themselves. They claw at one another as a way of life. They play polo with dead calves and force their five-year-old sons into human cockfights to defend the family honor. Huns, roaming packs of savage, heartless beasts who feed on each other's barbarism. Cavemen with AK-47's. Then again, maybe I'm just cranky.
……….stop calling the Taliban 'smart.' They are not smart. The Taliban are cunning, like jackals and hyenas and wolverines. They are sneaky and ruthless, and when confronted, cowardly. They are hateful, malevolent parasites who create nothing and destroy everything else. Smart. Pfft. Yeah, they're real smart.
They've spent their entire lives reading only one book [The Qur’an] (and not a very good one, as books go) and consider hygiene and indoor plumbing to be products of the devil. They're still figuring out how to work a Bic lighter. Talking to a Taliban warrior about improving his quality of life is like trying to teach an ape how to hold a pen; eventually he just gets frustrated and sticks you in the eye with it.
This country blows, man. It's not even a country. There are no roads, there's no infrastructure, there's no government. This is an inhospitable, rock pit shit hole ruled by eleventh century warring tribes. There are no jobs here like we know jobs.
Afghanistan offers two ways for a man to support his family: join the opium trade or join the army. That's it. Those are your options. Oh, I forgot, you can also live in a refugee camp and eat plum-sweetened, crushed beetle paste and squirt mud like a goose with stomach flu, if that's your idea of a party. But the smell alone of those 'tent cities of the walking dead' is enough to hurl you into the poppy fields to cheerfully scrape bulbs for eighteen hours a day.
I've been living with these Tajiks and Uzbeks, and Turkmen and even a couple of Pushtuns, for over a month-and-a-half now, and this much I can say for sure: These guys, all of 'em, are Huns... actual, living Huns.. They LIVE to fight. It's what they do. It's ALL they do. They have no respect for anything, not for their families, nor for each other, nor for themselves. They claw at one another as a way of life. They play polo with dead calves and force their five-year-old sons into human cockfights to defend the family honor. Huns, roaming packs of savage, heartless beasts who feed on each other's barbarism. Cavemen with AK-47's. Then again, maybe I'm just cranky.
……….stop calling the Taliban 'smart.' They are not smart. The Taliban are cunning, like jackals and hyenas and wolverines. They are sneaky and ruthless, and when confronted, cowardly. They are hateful, malevolent parasites who create nothing and destroy everything else. Smart. Pfft. Yeah, they're real smart.
They've spent their entire lives reading only one book [The Qur’an] (and not a very good one, as books go) and consider hygiene and indoor plumbing to be products of the devil. They're still figuring out how to work a Bic lighter. Talking to a Taliban warrior about improving his quality of life is like trying to teach an ape how to hold a pen; eventually he just gets frustrated and sticks you in the eye with it.
Thursday, July 15, 2010
EXTREMIST AND RACIST OLD MAN?
The other day, my long-time friendship with a leftist came to a screeching halt. It all started out innocently enough when I forwarded comments from a Czech newspaper to him. (You can read the paper’s comments in my July 11 blog, "Confederacy of Fools Made Him Their Prince.") That started the following exchange of messages:
_EX-FRIEND: It's actually a German-owned weekly published in the Czech Republic. You know you can't trust the Germans.
_MY REPLY: But that doesn't change what the paper said about you and all those other Obama supporters being fools.
_EX-FRIEND: Fuck you old man! And a Nazi too.
_MY REPLY: There you go again with the name calling, you fool. As the article pointed out, you are part of a 'depraved electorate.' Oh by the way, even Barbara Streisand is jumping off the Obama ship. Now that's something!
_EX-FRIEND: I do think you are the fool here in your failure to recognize propaganda, just like the Germans who you ran from all those years ago. Wake up and smell the coffee, you are an old raciest who can not stand the thought of a black man leading this country and would prefer another G.W. Bush to blindly follow so long as he made you feel like you (collectively) had a set of balls. And you started the name calling--Fuck you again.
_MY REPLY: I didn't call you a fool – the Czech paper did. You're just pissed off because you and the other fools who voted for Obama got pegged for what you all did. And where did you get the idea that it was propaganda? Why would the Czechs or Germans propagandize against Obama? That doesn't make any sense. I really resent your statement that I cannot stand a black man being in office. That's a God damn lie! And I never blindly followed George Bush either. After all these years, you really don't know me. Just because I am not politically correct, doesn't make me a racist. I've put up with your calling me a Nazi and Adolf because I thought we were friends. Now I'm beginning to seriously doubt it.
_EX-FRIEND: It looks like you got the last part right. I don't think I can be friends with you any more. I find your brand of hatefulness more than I really want to put up with. Over the years you have become more and more extreme to the point that if someone doesn't agree with you and your narrow, like minded friends, that person must not be a really "good" American. Like Nixon, who must be another of your heroes, they must be "pinko, commie, left-leaning" or some other label used by the right. To use the logic of the right, if you hate the country and its government so much why don't you just leave. The thing that pisses me off is your spreading some second hand bullshit from a little known European weekly. Before you start spreading that kind of crap you really should look at what was published about Bush that you so readily ignored. Good day Sir, and fuck you.
_MY REPLY: You are a God damn liar!! I have never ever considered you as a bad American. The person you describe as me does not exist. True, I am a conservative and I'm not ashamed of it - but an extremist? You're so full of it. You have now done a pretty good job of describing yourself though. It never occurred to me that you are a pinko, commie, etc. But if the shoe fits, wear it!
Am I an extremist and racist old man?
Extremist no, conservative yes. My former friend is typical of most left wingers. They believe that anyone who disagrees with them is an extremist and they always resort to name calling.
"You are an old raciest who can not stand the thought of a black man leading this country." Nothing could be further from the truth! I would have voted for Gen. Colin Powell in a heartbeat had he chosen to run for president. Then why didn’t I vote for Obama? It had absolutely nothing to do with the color of his skin. It had everything to do with (1) his inexperience, (2) his association with people like the Rev. Jeremiah ‘God Damn America’ Wright and former domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, and (3) his team of Israel-hating foreign policy advisers.
Do I hate President Obama? Of course I don’t! I do hate some of his policies though, particularly his siding with the Palestinians against the Israelis. It bothers me that every day I get some hateful and malicious phony messages about Obama and I refuse to forward them to those on my e-mail address list. And I am thoroughly disgusted with a billboard created by the North Iowa Tea Party that compares President Obama to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin.
I am sure that I’m considered a racist for my frequent attacks on Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. If that makes me a racist, I plead guilty. If my criticism of black anti-Semitism makes me a racist, I plead guilty. If denying the myth of the criminal justice system being racist makes me a racist, I plead guilty. If calling attention to the ‘Duke Rape’ lynching of white lacrosse players makes me a racist, I plead guilty. But do those positions really make me a racist? I don’t think so. Politically incorrect yes, racist no.
And speaking of racism, my readers know that I have frequently attacked Muslims and Islam. But when I do so, I am attacking fundamentalist Muslims and Islam’s war against the West. I know that most Muslims in the U.S. are loyal Americans and good citizens. Most of them are not fundamentalists. They are more like reform Jews who have discarded some traditional religious practices, assimilated into American society and adapted to Western culture. Both groups are not accepted as true believers by their respective fundamentalist sects. And I can understand why American Muslims would identify with the Palestinians, just like Jews identify with the Israelis.
The Marxists at the college where I taught always called me a Nazi, something I expected from them. But I’ve always resented it when my former friend called me a Nazi and Adolf Hitler. I put up with it because I thought it was just a tongue-in-cheek comeback at my conservative views. Those slurs were anything but funny to me. With the above exchange of messages it is quite clear that he was being serious all the time. Therefore I’m not about to lose any sleep over the loss of that kind of friendship.
_EX-FRIEND: It's actually a German-owned weekly published in the Czech Republic. You know you can't trust the Germans.
_MY REPLY: But that doesn't change what the paper said about you and all those other Obama supporters being fools.
_EX-FRIEND: Fuck you old man! And a Nazi too.
_MY REPLY: There you go again with the name calling, you fool. As the article pointed out, you are part of a 'depraved electorate.' Oh by the way, even Barbara Streisand is jumping off the Obama ship. Now that's something!
_EX-FRIEND: I do think you are the fool here in your failure to recognize propaganda, just like the Germans who you ran from all those years ago. Wake up and smell the coffee, you are an old raciest who can not stand the thought of a black man leading this country and would prefer another G.W. Bush to blindly follow so long as he made you feel like you (collectively) had a set of balls. And you started the name calling--Fuck you again.
_MY REPLY: I didn't call you a fool – the Czech paper did. You're just pissed off because you and the other fools who voted for Obama got pegged for what you all did. And where did you get the idea that it was propaganda? Why would the Czechs or Germans propagandize against Obama? That doesn't make any sense. I really resent your statement that I cannot stand a black man being in office. That's a God damn lie! And I never blindly followed George Bush either. After all these years, you really don't know me. Just because I am not politically correct, doesn't make me a racist. I've put up with your calling me a Nazi and Adolf because I thought we were friends. Now I'm beginning to seriously doubt it.
_EX-FRIEND: It looks like you got the last part right. I don't think I can be friends with you any more. I find your brand of hatefulness more than I really want to put up with. Over the years you have become more and more extreme to the point that if someone doesn't agree with you and your narrow, like minded friends, that person must not be a really "good" American. Like Nixon, who must be another of your heroes, they must be "pinko, commie, left-leaning" or some other label used by the right. To use the logic of the right, if you hate the country and its government so much why don't you just leave. The thing that pisses me off is your spreading some second hand bullshit from a little known European weekly. Before you start spreading that kind of crap you really should look at what was published about Bush that you so readily ignored. Good day Sir, and fuck you.
_MY REPLY: You are a God damn liar!! I have never ever considered you as a bad American. The person you describe as me does not exist. True, I am a conservative and I'm not ashamed of it - but an extremist? You're so full of it. You have now done a pretty good job of describing yourself though. It never occurred to me that you are a pinko, commie, etc. But if the shoe fits, wear it!
Am I an extremist and racist old man?
Extremist no, conservative yes. My former friend is typical of most left wingers. They believe that anyone who disagrees with them is an extremist and they always resort to name calling.
"You are an old raciest who can not stand the thought of a black man leading this country." Nothing could be further from the truth! I would have voted for Gen. Colin Powell in a heartbeat had he chosen to run for president. Then why didn’t I vote for Obama? It had absolutely nothing to do with the color of his skin. It had everything to do with (1) his inexperience, (2) his association with people like the Rev. Jeremiah ‘God Damn America’ Wright and former domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, and (3) his team of Israel-hating foreign policy advisers.
Do I hate President Obama? Of course I don’t! I do hate some of his policies though, particularly his siding with the Palestinians against the Israelis. It bothers me that every day I get some hateful and malicious phony messages about Obama and I refuse to forward them to those on my e-mail address list. And I am thoroughly disgusted with a billboard created by the North Iowa Tea Party that compares President Obama to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin.
I am sure that I’m considered a racist for my frequent attacks on Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. If that makes me a racist, I plead guilty. If my criticism of black anti-Semitism makes me a racist, I plead guilty. If denying the myth of the criminal justice system being racist makes me a racist, I plead guilty. If calling attention to the ‘Duke Rape’ lynching of white lacrosse players makes me a racist, I plead guilty. But do those positions really make me a racist? I don’t think so. Politically incorrect yes, racist no.
And speaking of racism, my readers know that I have frequently attacked Muslims and Islam. But when I do so, I am attacking fundamentalist Muslims and Islam’s war against the West. I know that most Muslims in the U.S. are loyal Americans and good citizens. Most of them are not fundamentalists. They are more like reform Jews who have discarded some traditional religious practices, assimilated into American society and adapted to Western culture. Both groups are not accepted as true believers by their respective fundamentalist sects. And I can understand why American Muslims would identify with the Palestinians, just like Jews identify with the Israelis.
The Marxists at the college where I taught always called me a Nazi, something I expected from them. But I’ve always resented it when my former friend called me a Nazi and Adolf Hitler. I put up with it because I thought it was just a tongue-in-cheek comeback at my conservative views. Those slurs were anything but funny to me. With the above exchange of messages it is quite clear that he was being serious all the time. Therefore I’m not about to lose any sleep over the loss of that kind of friendship.
MEL GIBSON HATES EVERYBODY (2)
Further proof that Mel ‘Mad Max’ Gibson is an ASSHOLE:
Radar Online has released additional audio tapes in which an enraged Mel Gibson uses the word ‘fucking’ over and over again. Mad Max repeatedly calls Oksana Grigorieva a fucking whore, a fucking bitch and a fucking cunt. And Gibson refers to their baby’s Latino nanny as a wetback.
Gibson’s representatives say they have proof the tapes were edited. OK, so what? That doesn’t alter the fact that during his tirades, Mad Max repeatedly called his girlfriend a whore, a bitch and a cunt, and that he referred to their nanny as a wetback.
Radar Online has released additional audio tapes in which an enraged Mel Gibson uses the word ‘fucking’ over and over again. Mad Max repeatedly calls Oksana Grigorieva a fucking whore, a fucking bitch and a fucking cunt. And Gibson refers to their baby’s Latino nanny as a wetback.
Gibson’s representatives say they have proof the tapes were edited. OK, so what? That doesn’t alter the fact that during his tirades, Mad Max repeatedly called his girlfriend a whore, a bitch and a cunt, and that he referred to their nanny as a wetback.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
IF YOU NEED A COP, CALL THE TOOTH FAIRY
80 Oakland cops were laid off Tuesday night after negotiations between city and police union failed to reach an accord. Now residents of the city across the bay from San Fransicko might as well call the tooth fairy when they want a cop.
Oakland is not the only city in Kookfornia with serious financial problems. For that matter, there are a lot of cities throughout the U.S. that are going to be forced to take dramatic steps in order to reduce their budget deficits.
SUFFER THESE CRIMES IN OAKLAND? DON’T CALL THE COPS
Dozens of layoffs effective at midnight, barring last minute deal
By Lori Preutit and Kris Sanchez
NBC Bay Area
July 13, 2010
Chief Anthony Batts listed exactly 44 situations that his officers will no longer respond to and they include grand theft, burglary, car wrecks, identity theft and vandalism. He says if you live and Oakland and one of the above happens to you, you need to let police know on-line.
Some 80 officers were to be let go at midnight last night if a last-minute deal was not reached. That's about ten percent of the work force.
"I came her e to build an organization, not downsize one," said Batts, who was given the top job in October.
That deadline has been extended to 5 p.m. Tuesday.
Here's a partial list:
_burglary
_theft
_embezzlement
_grand theft
_grand theft:dog
_identity theft
_false information to peace officer
_required to register as sex or arson offender
_dump waste or offensive matter
_discard appliance with lock
_loud music
_possess forged notes
_pass fictitious check
_obtain money by false voucher
_fraudulent use of access cards
_stolen license plate
_embezzlement by an employee (over $ 400)
_extortion
_attempted extortion
_false personification of other
_injure telephone/ power line
_interfere with power line
_unauthorized cable tv connection
_vandalism
_administer/expose poison to another's
Negotiations are going on at Oakland City Hall in the mayor's office.
Batts said the 80 officers slated to be laid off - mostly new officers - are "pretty sad and pretty depressed," and those feelings are shared by the Police Department as a whole.
The Oakland City Council voted June 25 to eliminate the positions to help close the city's $32.5 million funding gap. According to the city of Oakland, each of the 776 police officers currently employed at OPD costs around $188,000 per year. Most of the officers who will be affected by the layoffs were on the streets of Oakland when Johannes Mehserle's involuntary manslaughter conviction caused riots last Thursday.
The sticking point in negotiations appears to be job security. The city council asked OPD officers to pay nine percent of their salary toward their pensions, which would save the city about $7.8 million toward a multi-million dollar deficit. The police union agreed, as long as the city could promise no layoffs for three years. No dice, says city council president Jane Brunner.
"We wish we could offer them a three-year no layoff protection we just can't financially. It would be irresponsible of us," Brunner said. The city agreed to a one-year moratorium on layoffs, but it is not enough for the union.
The problem is money. In the last five years, the police budget -- along with the fire department budget -- have amount to 75 percent of the general fund. After years of largely sparing those departments the budget ax, now it appears there are few other places to cut.
These are the last hours of negotiation and Brunner is hopeful that the city and police will find some sort middle ground.
"It's been very good conversation and not a whole lot of grandstanding." Brunner said. "There's actually real conversations. Each side understands the problem," she said.
Oakland is not the only city in Kookfornia with serious financial problems. For that matter, there are a lot of cities throughout the U.S. that are going to be forced to take dramatic steps in order to reduce their budget deficits.
SUFFER THESE CRIMES IN OAKLAND? DON’T CALL THE COPS
Dozens of layoffs effective at midnight, barring last minute deal
By Lori Preutit and Kris Sanchez
NBC Bay Area
July 13, 2010
Chief Anthony Batts listed exactly 44 situations that his officers will no longer respond to and they include grand theft, burglary, car wrecks, identity theft and vandalism. He says if you live and Oakland and one of the above happens to you, you need to let police know on-line.
Some 80 officers were to be let go at midnight last night if a last-minute deal was not reached. That's about ten percent of the work force.
"I came her e to build an organization, not downsize one," said Batts, who was given the top job in October.
That deadline has been extended to 5 p.m. Tuesday.
Here's a partial list:
_burglary
_theft
_embezzlement
_grand theft
_grand theft:dog
_identity theft
_false information to peace officer
_required to register as sex or arson offender
_dump waste or offensive matter
_discard appliance with lock
_loud music
_possess forged notes
_pass fictitious check
_obtain money by false voucher
_fraudulent use of access cards
_stolen license plate
_embezzlement by an employee (over $ 400)
_extortion
_attempted extortion
_false personification of other
_injure telephone/ power line
_interfere with power line
_unauthorized cable tv connection
_vandalism
_administer/expose poison to another's
Negotiations are going on at Oakland City Hall in the mayor's office.
Batts said the 80 officers slated to be laid off - mostly new officers - are "pretty sad and pretty depressed," and those feelings are shared by the Police Department as a whole.
The Oakland City Council voted June 25 to eliminate the positions to help close the city's $32.5 million funding gap. According to the city of Oakland, each of the 776 police officers currently employed at OPD costs around $188,000 per year. Most of the officers who will be affected by the layoffs were on the streets of Oakland when Johannes Mehserle's involuntary manslaughter conviction caused riots last Thursday.
The sticking point in negotiations appears to be job security. The city council asked OPD officers to pay nine percent of their salary toward their pensions, which would save the city about $7.8 million toward a multi-million dollar deficit. The police union agreed, as long as the city could promise no layoffs for three years. No dice, says city council president Jane Brunner.
"We wish we could offer them a three-year no layoff protection we just can't financially. It would be irresponsible of us," Brunner said. The city agreed to a one-year moratorium on layoffs, but it is not enough for the union.
The problem is money. In the last five years, the police budget -- along with the fire department budget -- have amount to 75 percent of the general fund. After years of largely sparing those departments the budget ax, now it appears there are few other places to cut.
These are the last hours of negotiation and Brunner is hopeful that the city and police will find some sort middle ground.
"It's been very good conversation and not a whole lot of grandstanding." Brunner said. "There's actually real conversations. Each side understands the problem," she said.
HEAR YE, HEAR YE, ALL SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS!
A SPEECH EVERY AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL SHOOULD GIVE
By Dennis Prager
Townhall.com
July 13, 2010
If every school principal gave this speech at the beginning of the next school year, America would be a better place.
To the students and faculty of our high school:
I am your new principal, and honored to be so. There is no greater calling than to teach young people.
I would like to apprise you of some important changes coming to our school. I am making these changes because I am convinced that most of the ideas that have dominated public education in America have worked against you, against your teachers and against our country.
First, this school will no longer honor race or ethnicity. I could not care less if your racial makeup is black, brown, red, yellow or white. I could not care less if your origins are African, Latin American, Asian or European, or if your ancestors arrived here on the Mayflower or on slave ships.
The only identity I care about, the only one this school will recognize, is your individual identity -- your character, your scholarship, your humanity. And the only national identity this school will care about is American. This is an American public school, and American public schools were created to make better Americans.
If you wish to affirm an ethnic, racial or religious identity through school, you will have to go elsewhere. We will end all ethnicity-, race- and non-American nationality-based celebrations. They undermine the motto of America, one of its three central values -- e pluribus unum, "from many, one." And this school will be guided by America's values.
This includes all after-school clubs. I will not authorize clubs that divide students based on any identities. This includes race, language, religion, sexual orientation or whatever else may become in vogue in a society divided by political correctness.
Your clubs will be based on interests and passions, not blood, ethnic, racial or other physically defined ties. Those clubs just cultivate narcissism -- an unhealthy preoccupation with the self -- while the purpose of education is to get you to think beyond yourself. So we will have clubs that transport you to the wonders and glories of art, music, astronomy, languages you do not already speak, carpentry and more. If the only extracurricular activities you can imagine being interesting in are those based on ethnic, racial or sexual identity, that means that little outside of yourself really interests you.
Second, I am uninterested in whether English is your native language. My only interest in terms of language is that you leave this school speaking and writing English as fluently as possible. The English language has united America's citizens for over 200 years, and it will unite us at this school. It is one of the indispensable reasons this country of immigrants has always come to be one country. And if you leave this school without excellent English language skills, I would be remiss in my duty to ensure that you will be prepared to successfully compete in the American job market. We will learn other languages here -- it is deplorable that most Americans only speak English -- but if you want classes taught in your native language rather than in English, this is not your school.
Third, because I regard learning as a sacred endeavor, everything in this school will reflect learning's elevated status. This means, among other things, that you and your teachers will dress accordingly. Many people in our society dress more formally for Hollywood events than for church or school. These people have their priorities backward. Therefore, there will be a formal dress code at this school.
Fourth, no obscene language will be tolerated anywhere on this school's property -- whether in class, in the hallways or at athletic events. If you can't speak without using the f-word, you can't speak. By obscene language I mean the words banned by the Federal Communications Commission, plus epithets such as "Nigger," even when used by one black student to address another black, or "bitch," even when addressed by a girl to a girlfriend. It is my intent that by the time you leave this school, you will be among the few your age to instinctively distinguish between the elevated and the degraded, the holy and the obscene.
Fifth, we will end all self-esteem programs. In this school, self-esteem will be attained in only one way -- the way people attained it until decided otherwise a generation ago -- by earning it. One immediate consequence is that there will be one valedictorian, not eight.
Sixth, and last, I am reorienting the school toward academics and away from politics and propaganda. No more time will devoted to scaring you about smoking and caffeine, or terrifying you about sexual harassment or global warming. No more semesters will be devoted to condom wearing and teaching you to regard sexual relations as only or primarily a health issue. There will be no more attempts to convince you that you are a victim because you are not white, or not male, or not heterosexual or not Christian. We will have failed if any one of you graduates this school and does not consider him or herself inordinately lucky -- to be alive and to be an American.
Now, please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of our country. As many of you do not know the words, your teachers will hand them out to you.
By Dennis Prager
Townhall.com
July 13, 2010
If every school principal gave this speech at the beginning of the next school year, America would be a better place.
To the students and faculty of our high school:
I am your new principal, and honored to be so. There is no greater calling than to teach young people.
I would like to apprise you of some important changes coming to our school. I am making these changes because I am convinced that most of the ideas that have dominated public education in America have worked against you, against your teachers and against our country.
First, this school will no longer honor race or ethnicity. I could not care less if your racial makeup is black, brown, red, yellow or white. I could not care less if your origins are African, Latin American, Asian or European, or if your ancestors arrived here on the Mayflower or on slave ships.
The only identity I care about, the only one this school will recognize, is your individual identity -- your character, your scholarship, your humanity. And the only national identity this school will care about is American. This is an American public school, and American public schools were created to make better Americans.
If you wish to affirm an ethnic, racial or religious identity through school, you will have to go elsewhere. We will end all ethnicity-, race- and non-American nationality-based celebrations. They undermine the motto of America, one of its three central values -- e pluribus unum, "from many, one." And this school will be guided by America's values.
This includes all after-school clubs. I will not authorize clubs that divide students based on any identities. This includes race, language, religion, sexual orientation or whatever else may become in vogue in a society divided by political correctness.
Your clubs will be based on interests and passions, not blood, ethnic, racial or other physically defined ties. Those clubs just cultivate narcissism -- an unhealthy preoccupation with the self -- while the purpose of education is to get you to think beyond yourself. So we will have clubs that transport you to the wonders and glories of art, music, astronomy, languages you do not already speak, carpentry and more. If the only extracurricular activities you can imagine being interesting in are those based on ethnic, racial or sexual identity, that means that little outside of yourself really interests you.
Second, I am uninterested in whether English is your native language. My only interest in terms of language is that you leave this school speaking and writing English as fluently as possible. The English language has united America's citizens for over 200 years, and it will unite us at this school. It is one of the indispensable reasons this country of immigrants has always come to be one country. And if you leave this school without excellent English language skills, I would be remiss in my duty to ensure that you will be prepared to successfully compete in the American job market. We will learn other languages here -- it is deplorable that most Americans only speak English -- but if you want classes taught in your native language rather than in English, this is not your school.
Third, because I regard learning as a sacred endeavor, everything in this school will reflect learning's elevated status. This means, among other things, that you and your teachers will dress accordingly. Many people in our society dress more formally for Hollywood events than for church or school. These people have their priorities backward. Therefore, there will be a formal dress code at this school.
Fourth, no obscene language will be tolerated anywhere on this school's property -- whether in class, in the hallways or at athletic events. If you can't speak without using the f-word, you can't speak. By obscene language I mean the words banned by the Federal Communications Commission, plus epithets such as "Nigger," even when used by one black student to address another black, or "bitch," even when addressed by a girl to a girlfriend. It is my intent that by the time you leave this school, you will be among the few your age to instinctively distinguish between the elevated and the degraded, the holy and the obscene.
Fifth, we will end all self-esteem programs. In this school, self-esteem will be attained in only one way -- the way people attained it until decided otherwise a generation ago -- by earning it. One immediate consequence is that there will be one valedictorian, not eight.
Sixth, and last, I am reorienting the school toward academics and away from politics and propaganda. No more time will devoted to scaring you about smoking and caffeine, or terrifying you about sexual harassment or global warming. No more semesters will be devoted to condom wearing and teaching you to regard sexual relations as only or primarily a health issue. There will be no more attempts to convince you that you are a victim because you are not white, or not male, or not heterosexual or not Christian. We will have failed if any one of you graduates this school and does not consider him or herself inordinately lucky -- to be alive and to be an American.
Now, please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of our country. As many of you do not know the words, your teachers will hand them out to you.
FATSO MUST FEEL SORRY FOR THE MENTALLY CHALLENGED
DRUNK TOURIST MAULED BY FATSO THE CRCODILE…..AFTER TRYING TO RIDE THE 18FT-LONG BEAST
By Richard Shears
Mail Online
July 13, 2010
There's an unwritten rule in Australia's outback - if you drink too much, don't mess with the wildlife.
One tourist who either hadn't heard the warning or who was too drunk to care decided after a few hours at a tavern that he'd go for a ride.....on a crocodile.
The 36-year-old man, whose name is being withheld by police because 'he's suffered enough embarrassment and injury', climbed over a fence surrounding a crocodile enclosure on the outskirts of the town of Broome, Western Australia.
This is the home of Fatso, a monster 18ft saltwater crocodile, one of the most dangerous creatures on earth, and who guards his territory ferociously.
Without a thought for the possibility that he could end up in Fatso's stomach, the tourist - believed to be from New South Wales - hurled himself at the crocodile and tried to take a ride on his back.
'Fatso has taken offence to this and has spun around and bit this man on the right leg,' said Sergeant Roger Haynes of Broome police.
'For an unknown reason, the crocodile has let him go and he's been able to scale the fence again and leave the wildlife park.'
Trailing blood from severe wounds in his leg, the man made his way back to the pub, where an ambulance was called. Sgt Haynes said the visitor had some 'very nasty lacerations' and would spend some time in the hospital because crocodile wounds are prone to infection.’
'He's extremely lucky to have got out of there alive,' said Sgt Haynes. 'Once saltwater crocodiles get hold of you, they are not renowned for letting you go.'
'No person in their right mind would try to sit on a huge saltwater crocodile,' he said.
Mr Malcolm Douglas who owns the crocodile park said the drunken visitor was 'incredibly lucky' to survive his brush with the 125 stone reptile.
Fatso has a violent history. He was moved to the wildlife park from a Northern Territory river 20 years ago because he was attacking boats.
By Richard Shears
Mail Online
July 13, 2010
There's an unwritten rule in Australia's outback - if you drink too much, don't mess with the wildlife.
One tourist who either hadn't heard the warning or who was too drunk to care decided after a few hours at a tavern that he'd go for a ride.....on a crocodile.
The 36-year-old man, whose name is being withheld by police because 'he's suffered enough embarrassment and injury', climbed over a fence surrounding a crocodile enclosure on the outskirts of the town of Broome, Western Australia.
This is the home of Fatso, a monster 18ft saltwater crocodile, one of the most dangerous creatures on earth, and who guards his territory ferociously.
Without a thought for the possibility that he could end up in Fatso's stomach, the tourist - believed to be from New South Wales - hurled himself at the crocodile and tried to take a ride on his back.
'Fatso has taken offence to this and has spun around and bit this man on the right leg,' said Sergeant Roger Haynes of Broome police.
'For an unknown reason, the crocodile has let him go and he's been able to scale the fence again and leave the wildlife park.'
Trailing blood from severe wounds in his leg, the man made his way back to the pub, where an ambulance was called. Sgt Haynes said the visitor had some 'very nasty lacerations' and would spend some time in the hospital because crocodile wounds are prone to infection.’
'He's extremely lucky to have got out of there alive,' said Sgt Haynes. 'Once saltwater crocodiles get hold of you, they are not renowned for letting you go.'
'No person in their right mind would try to sit on a huge saltwater crocodile,' he said.
Mr Malcolm Douglas who owns the crocodile park said the drunken visitor was 'incredibly lucky' to survive his brush with the 125 stone reptile.
Fatso has a violent history. He was moved to the wildlife park from a Northern Territory river 20 years ago because he was attacking boats.
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
MEL GIBSON HATES EVERYBODY
ASSHOLE: This is my one-word description of Mel Gibson.
There is no doubt that Gibson is an extremely talented actor and director. But the bottom line is that Gibson is simply an asshole.
Gibson is now being investigated for beating the crap out of Oksana Grigorieva, his girlfriend and the mother of his love child. During the domestic brawl with the Russian native, Gibson struck her hard enough to knock out one of her teeth.
Gibson must hate everybody because he has been caught ranting against Jews, women, blacks and Latinos. His defenders say that it’s just the alcohol talking. That’s as phony as a nine-dollar bill. Alcohol does not talk, it just loosens the lips, thus enabling people to express their true feelings.
Four years ago, when "Mad Max" got busted for drunk driving, he let loose with a tirade against the arresting officer and against Jews. "You mother fucker, I'm going to fuck you," he shouted at the officer. He claimed to own Malibu and promised to make the deputy's life miserable. During the ride, he yelled something about "fucking Jews" and followed that up with "The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world." Then he asked the deputy, "Are you a Jew?" And after they arrived at the Sheriff’s station, Gibson called a female sergeant, "sugar tits."
Gibson’s latest hate-filled outburst was recorded by Grigorieva last January and RadarOnline recently obtained the audio tapes.
From RadarOnline.com:
The tape begins with Mel berating Oksana about her breast feeding because she has implants. "So you’re not lying to me about fake tits?" he says. "I never have," she answers.
Mel gets enraged and tells Oksana that she lied to him. When she denies it, he says about her breasts: "They look ridiculous. Get rid of them why don’t you."
But Oksana tells him it’s none of his business and Mel rants, "Keep them if you want, they look stupid. Keep ‘em if you want. Look stupid. See if I give a fuck. They look like a Vegas whore. And you go around sashaying in your tight clothes. I won’t stand for that anymore."
Oksana answers that she doesn’t walk around in tight clothes.
"You go out in public and it’s a fucking embarrassment to me. You look like a fucking bitch in heat. And if you get raped by a pack of niggers it will be your fault. Alright? Because you provoked it. You are provocatively dressed all the time with your fake boobs that you feel you have to show off. I don’t like it. I don’t want that woman. I don’t want you. I don’t trust you. I don’t love you."
RadarOnline claims to have additional audio tapes of Gibson’s tirades that were recorded by Grigorieva and says it will release them later on.
There is no doubt that Gibson is an extremely talented actor and director. But the bottom line is that Gibson is simply an asshole.
Gibson is now being investigated for beating the crap out of Oksana Grigorieva, his girlfriend and the mother of his love child. During the domestic brawl with the Russian native, Gibson struck her hard enough to knock out one of her teeth.
Gibson must hate everybody because he has been caught ranting against Jews, women, blacks and Latinos. His defenders say that it’s just the alcohol talking. That’s as phony as a nine-dollar bill. Alcohol does not talk, it just loosens the lips, thus enabling people to express their true feelings.
Four years ago, when "Mad Max" got busted for drunk driving, he let loose with a tirade against the arresting officer and against Jews. "You mother fucker, I'm going to fuck you," he shouted at the officer. He claimed to own Malibu and promised to make the deputy's life miserable. During the ride, he yelled something about "fucking Jews" and followed that up with "The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world." Then he asked the deputy, "Are you a Jew?" And after they arrived at the Sheriff’s station, Gibson called a female sergeant, "sugar tits."
Gibson’s latest hate-filled outburst was recorded by Grigorieva last January and RadarOnline recently obtained the audio tapes.
From RadarOnline.com:
The tape begins with Mel berating Oksana about her breast feeding because she has implants. "So you’re not lying to me about fake tits?" he says. "I never have," she answers.
Mel gets enraged and tells Oksana that she lied to him. When she denies it, he says about her breasts: "They look ridiculous. Get rid of them why don’t you."
But Oksana tells him it’s none of his business and Mel rants, "Keep them if you want, they look stupid. Keep ‘em if you want. Look stupid. See if I give a fuck. They look like a Vegas whore. And you go around sashaying in your tight clothes. I won’t stand for that anymore."
Oksana answers that she doesn’t walk around in tight clothes.
"You go out in public and it’s a fucking embarrassment to me. You look like a fucking bitch in heat. And if you get raped by a pack of niggers it will be your fault. Alright? Because you provoked it. You are provocatively dressed all the time with your fake boobs that you feel you have to show off. I don’t like it. I don’t want that woman. I don’t want you. I don’t trust you. I don’t love you."
RadarOnline claims to have additional audio tapes of Gibson’s tirades that were recorded by Grigorieva and says it will release them later on.
I'LL BET THAT JUSTIN'S SHORT-ARM STOOD AT ATTENTION WHEN IT GOT ZAPPED
CREATIVE TASERING
By Bob Walsh
PACOVILLA Corrections blog
July 11, 2010
William Atwood Sr., 45, has a pretty definite idea of what is right and wrong. It may cost him 16 years in prison (though it probably won’t).
Atwood has a teenage daughter. He was more than a little pissed when Justin Moore, 23, sent his daughter a cellphone photo of his genitalia. So he managed to get Moore to come to their house in [Riverside County’s] French Valley and confronted him with a shotgun. He ordered him to strip down to his boxers (with the assistance of one round discharged [in the air] from the shotgun) tied him and lit him up with a Taser. The police and the DA were not amused, nor was Moore himself.
Moore, who was acquainted with Atwood’s daughter and son, says sending the cellphone picture on January 10 was intended as a joke. Atwood reported the incident to the police, but the D A declined to file in the case. Atwood described the girl as a "child" to the police though the LA Times news article linked here does not state her age specifically. The D A said they could not prove "sexual intent" in sending the photo. (I guess people send photograph of their genitals to other people all the time with no sexual intent.)
Atwood is facing several charges, including assault.
By Bob Walsh
PACOVILLA Corrections blog
July 11, 2010
William Atwood Sr., 45, has a pretty definite idea of what is right and wrong. It may cost him 16 years in prison (though it probably won’t).
Atwood has a teenage daughter. He was more than a little pissed when Justin Moore, 23, sent his daughter a cellphone photo of his genitalia. So he managed to get Moore to come to their house in [Riverside County’s] French Valley and confronted him with a shotgun. He ordered him to strip down to his boxers (with the assistance of one round discharged [in the air] from the shotgun) tied him and lit him up with a Taser. The police and the DA were not amused, nor was Moore himself.
Moore, who was acquainted with Atwood’s daughter and son, says sending the cellphone picture on January 10 was intended as a joke. Atwood reported the incident to the police, but the D A declined to file in the case. Atwood described the girl as a "child" to the police though the LA Times news article linked here does not state her age specifically. The D A said they could not prove "sexual intent" in sending the photo. (I guess people send photograph of their genitals to other people all the time with no sexual intent.)
Atwood is facing several charges, including assault.
AND MAKE SURE HIS NUTS ARE WET
You've got to love this guy!
Don Cherry, who hosts the Coach's Corner on Hockey Night in Canada, was asked on a local live radio talk show just what he thought about the allegations of torture of suspected terrorists. His reply prompted his ejection from the studio, but to thunderous applause from the audience.
Here is what Don Cherry told the radio audience:
"If hooking up one raghead terrorist prisoner's testicles to a car battery to get the truth out of the lying little camel shagger will save just one Canadian life, then I have only three things to say: Red is positive, black is negative, and make sure his nuts are wet."
Don Cherry, who hosts the Coach's Corner on Hockey Night in Canada, was asked on a local live radio talk show just what he thought about the allegations of torture of suspected terrorists. His reply prompted his ejection from the studio, but to thunderous applause from the audience.
Here is what Don Cherry told the radio audience:
"If hooking up one raghead terrorist prisoner's testicles to a car battery to get the truth out of the lying little camel shagger will save just one Canadian life, then I have only three things to say: Red is positive, black is negative, and make sure his nuts are wet."
Monday, July 12, 2010
EDUCATED IDIOTS WASTING OUR TAX DOLLARS
Academia is full of educated idiots.
The University of Texas is committed to a diverse student body, but only 4.5 percent of its undergraduate students are black. A university committee has concluded that by renaming a 50-year-old dormitory, more blacks will enroll at UT.
Therefore the university's president is going to recommend to the Board of Regents that they approve renaming the dormitory which is named after a long-dead UT professor who was a founder and active member of the Florida KKK.
In the past, black students complained about several statues of Confederate war heroes on campus. In response, the university erected a statue of Martin Luther King, Jr. on its campus. Did that lead to an in increased black enrollment? What do you think?
Now I have absolutely no problem with renaming a building because it honored a member of the KKK. But to think that doing so will increase the percentage of blacks at UT is absolutely ridiculous. I suspect the low number of black students is due to a combination of the university’s entrance standards and their failure to pass courses if they were admitted under UT’s special minority set-aside program.
The thinking that a bunch of statues or the name of a dorm are a hindrance to achieving diversity proves that the University of Texas has its share of educated idiots. And to top it off, us poor taxpayers are paying their salaries.
The University of Texas is committed to a diverse student body, but only 4.5 percent of its undergraduate students are black. A university committee has concluded that by renaming a 50-year-old dormitory, more blacks will enroll at UT.
Therefore the university's president is going to recommend to the Board of Regents that they approve renaming the dormitory which is named after a long-dead UT professor who was a founder and active member of the Florida KKK.
In the past, black students complained about several statues of Confederate war heroes on campus. In response, the university erected a statue of Martin Luther King, Jr. on its campus. Did that lead to an in increased black enrollment? What do you think?
Now I have absolutely no problem with renaming a building because it honored a member of the KKK. But to think that doing so will increase the percentage of blacks at UT is absolutely ridiculous. I suspect the low number of black students is due to a combination of the university’s entrance standards and their failure to pass courses if they were admitted under UT’s special minority set-aside program.
The thinking that a bunch of statues or the name of a dorm are a hindrance to achieving diversity proves that the University of Texas has its share of educated idiots. And to top it off, us poor taxpayers are paying their salaries.
TO THE SWISS, THE FRENCH AND THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY, FORCIBLE RAPE OF A CHILD IS OK
What a miscarriage of justice! Roman Polanski did not just have ‘unlawful sex with a minor.’ He FORCIBLY RAPED his victim. Obviously, the Swiss, the French and the Entertainment Industry do not consider the following facts to be a crime:
After plying the 13-year-old girl with Quaalude and champagne, Roman Polanski instructed his victim to get into a jacuzzi naked, refused to take her home when she begged to go, began kissing her even though she said no and asked him to stop; performed cunnilingus on her as she said no and asked him to stop; put his penis in her vagina as she said no and asked him to stop; asked if he could penetrate her anally, to which she replied, "No," then went ahead and did it anyway, until he had an orgasm.
SWISS REJECT U.S. REQUEST TO EXTRADITE POLANSKI
By Nick Cumming-Bruce
The New York Times
July 12, 2010
GENEVA — Switzerland will not extradite the film director Roman Polanski to the United States to face charges of unlawful sex with a minor because of a possible fault in the American application for his extradition, Justice Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf told a news conference on Monday.
"He’s a free man," she said.
Mr. Polanski was arrested on an international warrant issued by the United States on charges dating from 1977. The director fled on the eve of sentencing in California because of fear that the presiding intended to renege what his defense lawyers said was a deal to avoid a prison sentence.
Ms. Widmer-Schlumpf said the American authorities had rejected a request by her ministry for records of a hearing by the prosecutor in the case, Roger Gunson, in January 2010, which should have established whether the judge who tried the case in 1977 had assured Mr. Polanski that time he spent in a psychiatric unit would constitute the whole of the period of imprisonment he would serve.
"If this were the case, Roman Polanski would actually have already served his sentence and therefore both the proceedings on which the U.S. extradition request is founded and the request itself would have no foundation," the Swiss Justice Ministry said in a statement.
Swiss authorities jailed Mr. Polanski, the Polish-born filmmaker, in Zurich in September 2009 in response to the American warrant but in December allowed him to move to his chalet in the ski resort of Gstaad under house arrest on bail of $4.5 million pending a decision on his extradition. Mr. Polanski’s French lawyer, Georges Kiejman, hailed the Swiss government’s decision for concluding Mr. Polanski’s "long ordeal," and said he would be able return to his home and family in France.
After plying the 13-year-old girl with Quaalude and champagne, Roman Polanski instructed his victim to get into a jacuzzi naked, refused to take her home when she begged to go, began kissing her even though she said no and asked him to stop; performed cunnilingus on her as she said no and asked him to stop; put his penis in her vagina as she said no and asked him to stop; asked if he could penetrate her anally, to which she replied, "No," then went ahead and did it anyway, until he had an orgasm.
SWISS REJECT U.S. REQUEST TO EXTRADITE POLANSKI
By Nick Cumming-Bruce
The New York Times
July 12, 2010
GENEVA — Switzerland will not extradite the film director Roman Polanski to the United States to face charges of unlawful sex with a minor because of a possible fault in the American application for his extradition, Justice Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf told a news conference on Monday.
"He’s a free man," she said.
Mr. Polanski was arrested on an international warrant issued by the United States on charges dating from 1977. The director fled on the eve of sentencing in California because of fear that the presiding intended to renege what his defense lawyers said was a deal to avoid a prison sentence.
Ms. Widmer-Schlumpf said the American authorities had rejected a request by her ministry for records of a hearing by the prosecutor in the case, Roger Gunson, in January 2010, which should have established whether the judge who tried the case in 1977 had assured Mr. Polanski that time he spent in a psychiatric unit would constitute the whole of the period of imprisonment he would serve.
"If this were the case, Roman Polanski would actually have already served his sentence and therefore both the proceedings on which the U.S. extradition request is founded and the request itself would have no foundation," the Swiss Justice Ministry said in a statement.
Swiss authorities jailed Mr. Polanski, the Polish-born filmmaker, in Zurich in September 2009 in response to the American warrant but in December allowed him to move to his chalet in the ski resort of Gstaad under house arrest on bail of $4.5 million pending a decision on his extradition. Mr. Polanski’s French lawyer, Georges Kiejman, hailed the Swiss government’s decision for concluding Mr. Polanski’s "long ordeal," and said he would be able return to his home and family in France.
EX-CON KILLS COP, THEN ATTACKS POLICE BUILDING
COP KILLING: FACTS ARE CLEAR, BUT QUESTIONS ABOUND
Convicted felon denied bail in mystifying attack on Chicago police officer
By William Lee and Annie Sweeney
Chicago Tribune
July 9, 2010
Before ripping away Chicago police officer Thor Soderberg's handgun and shooting him dead with it, Bryant Brewer, a felon with a long arrest record, inexplicably tried getting inside the last place anyone would expect him to go: a renovated police facility full of cops.
Moments before Soderbergh, an 11-year police veteran, was killed Wednesday, Brewer strolled down 61st Street, screaming and hollering at no one in particular before he tried opening a locked door to the old Englewood police station that now serves as a police deployment center, according to a witness.
After Brewer killed the officer, he fired shots at a stranger sitting across the street and then peppered the facade of the police building with gunshots before being shot by responding officers, prosecutors said Friday.
Three officers who came out of the police building returned fire, striking Brewer once in the chest.
What exactly drew Brewer, 24, to the facility at 6120 S. Racine Ave. was not clear two days after Soderberg's slaying, which occurred just after he had finished his day and stood behind his car in a parking lot adjacent to the police building.
While Brewer remained hospitalized Friday under police guard, Cook County Judge Ramon Ocasio III denied him bail on charges of first-degree murder of a police officer, attempted first-degree murder and armed robbery in the potential capital case.
"The entire department is saddened beyond belief," police Superintendent Jody Weis said at a news conference. "The entire city should be enraged."
Weis said robbery appeared to be the motive for the attack on Soderberg, 43. Brewer's family has said he suffered from mental illness.
"From everything we've seen so far, we have somebody who was just trying to rob and attack an individual and that individual (happened) to be a police officer. So I don't know what was going through this guy's head, why he would attack a police officer in broad daylight. That's something, I guess, only he will know," Weis said.
In court, Assistant State's Attorney John Dillon said that after Brewer shot Soderberg three times, he crossed the street to an apartment building, opened fire on Richard Mints, 51, and stole his tool bag. Mints ran from the gunfire and wasn't injured.Dillon said Brewer then walked to the middle of Racine Avenue and began firing at the police building.
A north suburban native, Soderberg was an instructor at the police training academy but had been deployed to the Englewood facility for a special task force aimed at combating youth violence.
Weis said the 43-year-old triathlete was leaving work to play in a volleyball game when he was shot.
Convicted felon denied bail in mystifying attack on Chicago police officer
By William Lee and Annie Sweeney
Chicago Tribune
July 9, 2010
Before ripping away Chicago police officer Thor Soderberg's handgun and shooting him dead with it, Bryant Brewer, a felon with a long arrest record, inexplicably tried getting inside the last place anyone would expect him to go: a renovated police facility full of cops.
Moments before Soderbergh, an 11-year police veteran, was killed Wednesday, Brewer strolled down 61st Street, screaming and hollering at no one in particular before he tried opening a locked door to the old Englewood police station that now serves as a police deployment center, according to a witness.
After Brewer killed the officer, he fired shots at a stranger sitting across the street and then peppered the facade of the police building with gunshots before being shot by responding officers, prosecutors said Friday.
Three officers who came out of the police building returned fire, striking Brewer once in the chest.
What exactly drew Brewer, 24, to the facility at 6120 S. Racine Ave. was not clear two days after Soderberg's slaying, which occurred just after he had finished his day and stood behind his car in a parking lot adjacent to the police building.
While Brewer remained hospitalized Friday under police guard, Cook County Judge Ramon Ocasio III denied him bail on charges of first-degree murder of a police officer, attempted first-degree murder and armed robbery in the potential capital case.
"The entire department is saddened beyond belief," police Superintendent Jody Weis said at a news conference. "The entire city should be enraged."
Weis said robbery appeared to be the motive for the attack on Soderberg, 43. Brewer's family has said he suffered from mental illness.
"From everything we've seen so far, we have somebody who was just trying to rob and attack an individual and that individual (happened) to be a police officer. So I don't know what was going through this guy's head, why he would attack a police officer in broad daylight. That's something, I guess, only he will know," Weis said.
In court, Assistant State's Attorney John Dillon said that after Brewer shot Soderberg three times, he crossed the street to an apartment building, opened fire on Richard Mints, 51, and stole his tool bag. Mints ran from the gunfire and wasn't injured.Dillon said Brewer then walked to the middle of Racine Avenue and began firing at the police building.
A north suburban native, Soderberg was an instructor at the police training academy but had been deployed to the Englewood facility for a special task force aimed at combating youth violence.
Weis said the 43-year-old triathlete was leaving work to play in a volleyball game when he was shot.
SILLY SEASON FOR INEFFECTIVE ANTI-TERRORISM MEASURES (2)
WHAT’S WRONG WITH U.S. AIRPORT SECURITY?
One pilot says TSA agents are like 'mall cops who engage in a form of theater that suggests security but doesn't deliver'
By Daniel Rubin
The Philadelphia Inquirer
July 11, 2010
Soon after December 2001, when an al-Qaeda operative named Richard Reid tried to light plastic explosives stuffed into the heel of his boot, our nation's response has been to invite everyone to shuffle through metal detectors in socks or bare feet.
To some, the sight of Americans fumbling for their footwear after passing through security is a sign the terrorists have won or, at the very least, an admission that we're stuck fighting the last war while our enemy plans new tactics.
That's the view of Fred Gevalt, one of a pair of critics of our approach to air security who hit the talk-show circuit while I was away.
Gevalt, a pilot and former publisher of a civil aviation periodical, spent two years producing a documentary film that sees the Transportation Security Administration as a classic example of big government at its worst. The film, released on DVD last week, is called Please Remove Your Shoes.
"I've just watched them get bigger and bigger, and their empire-building is out of control," Gevalt said of the TSA. "At the end of the day, what do we have? Like a lot of government programs, something that's extremely intrusive, expensive as hell, and doesn't work."
He views the screeners as window dressing, mall cops who engage in a form of theater that suggests security but doesn't deliver.
Another critic of the way we secure our skies is a former insider - Stewart Baker, who served as policy chief for the Department of Homeland Security. His new book is Skating on Stilts: Why We Aren't Stopping Tomorrow's Terrorism.
It's not bureaucracy, he argues, but the privacy lobbies - on both the left and the right - that have thwarted better intelligence-gathering and security.
Most of the problems I've been writing about in Philadelphia - invasive or insensitive screenings of the very young, the elderly, and the disabled - might have been reduced had privacy advocates not slowed deployment of full-body scanners and stopped the gathering of information about who has made reservations to fly, Baker said.
[According to Baker] The TSA is only allowed to know about 5 percent of the people the government keeps terrorism-related intelligence about. As a result, screeners wind up treating someone like Ryan Thomas, a 4-year-old wearing orthopedic braces, as if his parents might be radicalized Muslim converts who supported suicide bombers on the Internet.
"That," Baker said, "would make anyone a little rigid."
One pilot says TSA agents are like 'mall cops who engage in a form of theater that suggests security but doesn't deliver'
By Daniel Rubin
The Philadelphia Inquirer
July 11, 2010
Soon after December 2001, when an al-Qaeda operative named Richard Reid tried to light plastic explosives stuffed into the heel of his boot, our nation's response has been to invite everyone to shuffle through metal detectors in socks or bare feet.
To some, the sight of Americans fumbling for their footwear after passing through security is a sign the terrorists have won or, at the very least, an admission that we're stuck fighting the last war while our enemy plans new tactics.
That's the view of Fred Gevalt, one of a pair of critics of our approach to air security who hit the talk-show circuit while I was away.
Gevalt, a pilot and former publisher of a civil aviation periodical, spent two years producing a documentary film that sees the Transportation Security Administration as a classic example of big government at its worst. The film, released on DVD last week, is called Please Remove Your Shoes.
"I've just watched them get bigger and bigger, and their empire-building is out of control," Gevalt said of the TSA. "At the end of the day, what do we have? Like a lot of government programs, something that's extremely intrusive, expensive as hell, and doesn't work."
He views the screeners as window dressing, mall cops who engage in a form of theater that suggests security but doesn't deliver.
Another critic of the way we secure our skies is a former insider - Stewart Baker, who served as policy chief for the Department of Homeland Security. His new book is Skating on Stilts: Why We Aren't Stopping Tomorrow's Terrorism.
It's not bureaucracy, he argues, but the privacy lobbies - on both the left and the right - that have thwarted better intelligence-gathering and security.
Most of the problems I've been writing about in Philadelphia - invasive or insensitive screenings of the very young, the elderly, and the disabled - might have been reduced had privacy advocates not slowed deployment of full-body scanners and stopped the gathering of information about who has made reservations to fly, Baker said.
[According to Baker] The TSA is only allowed to know about 5 percent of the people the government keeps terrorism-related intelligence about. As a result, screeners wind up treating someone like Ryan Thomas, a 4-year-old wearing orthopedic braces, as if his parents might be radicalized Muslim converts who supported suicide bombers on the Internet.
"That," Baker said, "would make anyone a little rigid."
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